Tuesday, May 8, 2018

ONE BAPTISM — WATER OR SPIRIT? By Robert E. Hanna



ONE BAPTISM — WATER OR SPIRIT?
By Robert E. Hanna

Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:13

Having been accepted in the Beloved One, and knowing that we are members of the Body of Christ, we are assured by our apostle (Paul) that we are "of His flesh, and of His bones" (Ephesians 5:30). "For by ONE Spirit are we all BAPTIZED into ONE body." Can this be water baptism? "Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life" (Rom. 6:4). Can this be water baptism? "One Lord, one faith, ONE BAPTISM" (Ephesians 4:5). Can the ONE baptism by the ONE Spirit into ONE body — can this be water baptism? Surely this was not accomplished by a humanly-ordained human minister of the gospel in the sanctuary of a human church organization!

Paul besought the Galatians to "Stand fast therefore in the liberty where-with Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage" (Galatians 5:1). Every shackle has been struck from our limbs. Every fetter has been loosened and cast aside. We cannot work to obtain salvation. We cannot work to retain salvation. "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; that being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life" (Titus 3:5-7). Can this washing be that of physical baptism in water?




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